Lisa Kleypas Quotes

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

There is nothing perfect, no one can be perfect, and perfectionism is something you shouldn't chase.

There's no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn't just mean the perfect body.

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

You don't have to be perfect. Most men never think like that.

Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

The perfectionist is bound to be a neurotic, he cannot enjoy life, until he is perfect. And perfection as such never happens, it is not in the nature of things. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.

I remove the work should from my vocabulary forever. Should is a word that makes a prisoner of me. Every time I say should, I am making myself wrong, or I am making someone else wrong. I am, in effect, saying I am not good enough.

Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.